One last evening in Kandahar, while in a dim crowded tea stall, Radhanath Swami squatted on the floor with the locals. Suddenly everyone’s attention focused on a blind boy who stumbled in carrying a rustic wooden instrument with a single string nailed across it. He was perhaps sixteen years old, and like the others, wore soiled rags that loosely covered his emaciated body.
Radhanath Swami’s heart quaked—nothing covered his blinded, disfigured eyes. Despite his extreme poverty, he smiled radiantly
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22nd annual Siliguri Ratha Yatra - 2011
Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obesiences. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On Sunday, July 3, 2011,ISKCON Siliguri observed the twenty second annual Rathayatra Festival.
The Rathayatra began at 2:30 PM, the traditional time, at the ISKCON Temple premises. The Honorable Minister of West Bengal, Sri Goutam Dev, NB Dev.Dept. inaugurated the Rathayatra by performing arati to Their Lordships, Jagannath, Baladev and Subhadradevi, and then sweeping th
Mahaprabhu's mood at Ratha-yatra
At the beginning of the Ratha-yatra Festival, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu offers a prayer to Jagannatha-deva, not to His form as Lord Jagannatha or Vasudeva-Krsna, but to His form as Vrajendra-nandana Sri Krsna:
jayati jana-nivaso devaki-janma-vado
yadu-vara-parisat svair dorbhir asyann adharmam
sthira-cara-vrjina-ghnah su-smita-sri-mukhena
vraja-pura-vanitanam vardhayan kama-devam
Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.90.48)
["Sri Krsna is He who is known as jana-nivasa, the ultimate reso
GUNDICA MANDIRA MARJANA
[Dear Readers,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
July 1, 2011 is the commemoration of Gundica Mandira Marjana, the cleaning of the Gundica Temple. Please accept this lecture excerpted from Srila Narayana’s Maharaja’s book, The Origin of Ratha-yatra.
Your aspiring servants,
The hari-katha team]
We should know that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is one without a second. He is the same God for the Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and a
Ghee Lamps in a Bag and the Lord in My Hands
Volume 11, Chapter 14
Feb 27, 2011
HH Indradyumna Swami Maharaj
In India I am always on the lookout for interesting puja items, so the other day in Jaipur, I visited the antique shop of Mr. Sharma, an old friend. As I walked in he greeted me and we sat down to talk.
“Do you have anything interesting for me?” I asked.
“Yes,” he said. “I’ve kept aside a few small items you can use for puja.”
“Great!” I said.
As Mr. Sharma looked through the desk drawers for t
unsophisticated devotees.
Buddhuram was an unsophisticated farmer in a small village in Gujarat. He
doesn't know anything. He could not read or write. One day Buddhuram went
home after tendering the calves and his wife was just complaining and
shouting at him. Buddhuram's wife always regretted marrying him. She said,
"After all his name is Buddhuram and on top of that he has no buddhi. He is
a highly silly man and only knows how to
Note:
The real hunger is internal, and man is trying to satisfy it by externals. There is no satisfaction outside the satisfaction of the soul in its blissful relationship with the Super Soul Sri Krishna.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Satisfaction
It is a challenge to us all to see beyond externals, abuses, and fall downs in order to see eternal Kr
If shravanam is so important for a devotee and it is a primary requirement how about people who are deaf? How can such people benefit in their spiritual process? In what language do they communicate for spiritual upliftment? Do we have any program in place for such souls in Iskcon?
Signs Unto Krishna
In the prison house that is there in the material world there are culprits that break the prison rules and vanish. Like wise are there instances and information of those souls who break the prison rule and if yes, Who are they? Where could they go? What happens to them?
The timing of the Deity installation had become somewhat of a contentious issue. Tusta Krsna had approached Srila Prabhupada some days before suggesting that the installation ceremony should be in the evening, but Prabhupada had insisted that it be held in the morning. "Go to Pradyumna and find out some auspicious time in the morning," he said.
Tusta had done so, and found out some suitable times. But still he insisted on an evening program. Prabhupada
kaccid yasodha ratha-yuthapanam
gandiva-dhanvoparatarir aste
alaksito yac-chara-kuta-gudho
maya-kirato girisas tutosa
kaccit -- whether; yasah-dha -- famous; ratha-yuthapanam -- amongst the great chariot warriors; gandiva -- dhanva -- carrying the Gandiva bow, Arjuna; uparata-arih -- one who has vanquished the enemies; aste -- doing well; alaksitah -- without being identified; yat -- whose; sara-kuta-gudhah -- being covered by arrows; maya-kiratah -- fals
When we sincerely try to chant the Holy Name, the agents and subordinates of the illusory energy of the Lord try to create problems and obstacles in our spiritual progress. But even after facing the toughest of problems—a completely surrendered devotee of Supreme Lord Shri Krishna is not the least bit bothered or the least bit affected. In fact, all these hurdles propel their devotion and devotional fame to greater heights. The Supreme Lord is the cause of all causes and the actual source of all
Sayana Ekadasi
The saintly king Yudhishthira Maharaj said, “Oh Keshava, what is the name of that Ekadasi that occurs during the light fortnight of the month of Ashadha (June – July)? Who is the worshippable Deity for the auspicious day, and what is the process for observing this event?”
Lord Sri Krishna replied, “Oh caretaker of this Earthly planet, I shall gladly tell you a wonderful historical event that the deva lord Brahma once narrated to his son Narad Muni.
“One day Narad Muni asked his f
सब काल ईश की प्यारी, जय एकादशी तुम्हारी
सकल तिथिन की तुम हो रानी, वेद पुराण सबै बखानी
ब्रह्म रूप हो तुम निर्वाणी, दायक हो फल चारी
जय एकादशी तुम्हारी
उत्पन्ना, मोक्षदा स्वरूपा, सफला और पुत्रदा रूपा
नाम षडतिला परम अनूपा, जया नाम अघहारी
जय एकादशी तुम्हारी
विजया आमल की कहलाये, पाप मोचनी पाप नसावै
तू प्रमा पद्मा हो जावे, आवागमन विदारी
जय एकादशी तुम्हारी
बरूथनी है तेरो नामा, तथा मोहिनी अपरा श्यामा
सकल कामना कारी
जय एकादशी तुम्हारी
तू ही योगिनी, तू हरि शयनी, तथा पवित्रा पातक वहनी,
व्रत कर नारी सकल फल पावे, अजा नाम अ
Question: How to Minimize Being Criticised? |
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From every side I have been getting criticized from most of all people. Why it is happening to me? Some time I am feeling bad. What should I do to minimize the criticism? |
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Answer: Tolerate It and Go Back to Godhead |
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Question: How to Hear God's Instructions? |
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While going through the introduction of the Bhagavad-gita, I read that we should follow what the Supreme God tells us to do because in this way our activities will be on path of goodness. Can you please tell how to listen to what God is saying? I am very confused at present and things are becoming more and more complicated in personal life. I need Krishna's guidance. Please help. |
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Answer: Through the Bona Fide Spiritual Master |
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Krishna's guidance comes t |
GUIDE TO A BETTER LIFE - GOOD ONE
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The modern world was suffering, Prabhupada explained, from the misconception of thinking the
kim va krtaghesv agham atyamarsi
bhimo 'hivad dirghatamam vyamuncat
yasyanghri-patam rana-bhur na sehe
margam gadayas carato vicitram
kim -- whether; va -- either; krta -- performed; aghesu -- unto the sinners; agham -- anger; ati-amarsi -- unconquerable; bhimah -- Bhima; ahi-vat -- like a cobra; dirgha-tamam -- long-cherished; vyamuncat -- has released; yasya -- whose; anghri-patam -- putting on the steps; rana-bhuh -- the field of battle; na -- could no